Cyanocitta stelleri

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 900 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,600 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.1     Forest - Boreal   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly: Nuts Fruit Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 3-5
• Length of Incubation : 16 days
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cyanocitta stelleri (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Blue Jay

Members of the genus Cyanocitta

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. cristata (Northern Jay) · C. cristata cristata (Blue Jay) · C. cristata cyanotephra (Blue Jay) · C. cristata florincola (Florida Blue Jay) · C. cristata semplei (Semple's Blue Jay) · C. stelleri (Queen Charlotte Jay) · C. stelleri annectens (Black-Headed Jay) · C. stelleri carbonacea (Coast Jay) · C. stelleri carlottae (Steller's Jay) · C. stelleri diademata (Long-Crested Jay) · C. stelleri frontalis (Steller's Jay) · C. stelleri macrolopha (Long-Crested Jay) · C. stelleri percontatrix (Nevada Crested Jay) · C. stelleri stelleri (Queen Charlotte Jay)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3923
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179686
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2498402
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179685
• IUCN ID: 203602
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPAV02010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13080

Footnotes

1. Mean = 503.490 meters (1,651.870 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,137.590 based on 7,783 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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